The study points to lasting changes in the locus coeruleus, a brain region that plays a critical role in attention, memory, ...

A Nature Mental Health paper co-authored by Stanford’s Shebani Sethi reviews evidence linking metabolic dysfunction to serious psychiatric disorders.

Pamela J. Lein considers whether micro- and nanoplastics are accumulating in the brain and the question of whether they are ...

Researchers link glymphatic system (brain waste-clearance) dysfunction in childhood to the future development of psychosis ...

(OsakaWayne Studios/Moment/Getty Images) A new study has uncovered a connection between malfunctions in the brain's waste ...

How can we explain the onset of psychotic symptoms characteristic of schizophrenia? Despite their major and often irreversible impact on intellectual abilities and autonomy, the biological mechanisms ...

A recent grant award in the Department of Neurology serves to help investigators analyze how a group of brain cells may be responsible for changes to neural circuits that lead to the movement disorder ...

For people with an addiction, craving—the strong desire for a substance—can affect their decision-making, new research shows.

In a bid to better understand, and potentially treat, a host of conditions that affect early cognition, neurodevelopment and ...

Understanding how the brain works requires more than studying single regions in isolation. The cerebral cortex depends on long-distance connections that link specialized areas into coordinated ...

A new study has brought scientists one step further in the direction of developing a cure for a brutal group of rare brain disorders known as SYNGAP1-related disorders, or SRDs. Researchers were able ...

Kenneth Kendler, one of the most influential and prolific psychiatric researchers and historians of our time, recently published two articles examining the role of the brain in psychiatric disorders: ...